Friday, February 10, 2012

We've gotten so much at the store recently I haven't had time to send my new container emails, update our Facebook page, or even think at all about telling our little world about what all we've received. I just today got a chance to walk around and take some pictures finally of what has come in. Looking through the pics and sorting them here has helped me know what to mention in the mailer and post online - and it's a nice reminder that it is a cool place. Sometimes it is hard to remember in the day in - day out...

It is nearly planting season here in the Phoenix area - and I can't wait. Literally - I can't - we are plating some non-native privet this weekend. We still need to hold off on delicate frost sensitive things like bouganvillia and succulents -- but I am dreaming... Soon we will be able to get cracking in the backyard which was recently scraped clean of old rangy Bermuda grass. While the funds for the flagstone patio are not yet with us - we can certainly start getting some things in the ground and watch them grow.
In this month's House Beautiful there are some gorgeous pictures of garden rooms done by landscape designers at their own homes. These pictures from Elysian Landscapes's website show gorgeous use of green on green - big architectural agaves mixed with soft grasses and the blues of trailing sedum forming blankets beneath burgundy spears of leaves.

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Other than being frustrated that I can not, immediately, do everything I want to do to our new home - I work with my parents at our furniture and accessories store in north Scottsdale, Tierra Del Lagarto. We travel to places like India, Indonesia, Turkey and Morocco to hand select treasures for our 12,000 sq foot showroom.
I also am the ring master at the circus that is home life with young twins and their 4 year older brother. I have a wonderful husband who is sometimes actually home....
We travel, we renovate, we try to get through each day -- this is life.